Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
What critics thought
Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel lands somewhere between a genuine comeback and a nostalgic retread — loose enough in its madcap energy to win over fans of the original, but rarely as sharp or strange as what it's revisiting. Critics were fairly united in praising the cast, especially Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega, while splitting hard on whether Michael Keaton's title performance still has the anarchic charge it once did.
“fun in direct proportion to how wanton and tossed-off it seems...[the] deranged final sequence...ranks with Burton's most decadent displays of pure inspiration. The movie seems to be having fun seeing how far it can push the content limits of a PG-13 rating.”
Matt Zoller Seitz·Roger Ebert
“Burton's game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original.”
Xan Brooks·The Guardian
“a perfectly fine fine sequel, neither a total letdown nor a complete, shout-it-from-the-hills return to form for its creator...Maybe we should have said his name — Burton Burton Burton — three times, and the filmmaker who did that beloved original would reappear, grinning maniacally and giving us something a bit less undead and a bit more alive.”
David Fear·Rolling Stone
“While Michael Keaton slips zestfully back into the role of Beetlejuice like he never left, and the always reliable O'Hara is spookily unchanged, Ryder plays Lydia, poignantly, as a brittle adult who's stuck dressing in the style she affected a few decades ago, as though she'd gotten interrupted before she could fully finish growing up.”
Allison Willmore·Vulture
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' is no 'Beetlejuice,' but in the end it's got just enough Burton juice.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Cast & Crew
Tim BurtonDirector
Michael KeatonBeetlejuice
Winona RyderLydia
Catherine O'HaraDelia
Jenna OrtegaAstrid
Justin TherouxRory
Willem DafoeJackson
Monica BellucciDelores
Arthur ContiJeremy
Nick KellingtonBob - Shrinker
Santiago CabreraRichard
Burn GormanFather Damien
Danny DeVitoJanitor
Danny ElfmanComposer
Miles MillarWriter
Seth Grahame-SmithWriter
Alfred GoughWriter
Haris ZambarloukosCinematographyFrom the studio
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
What critics thought
Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel lands somewhere between a genuine comeback and a nostalgic retread — loose enough in its madcap energy to win over fans of the original, but rarely as sharp or strange as what it's revisiting. Critics were fairly united in praising the cast, especially Winona Ryder and Jenna Ortega, while splitting hard on whether Michael Keaton's title performance still has the anarchic charge it once did.
“fun in direct proportion to how wanton and tossed-off it seems...[the] deranged final sequence...ranks with Burton's most decadent displays of pure inspiration. The movie seems to be having fun seeing how far it can push the content limits of a PG-13 rating.”
Matt Zoller Seitz·Roger Ebert
“Burton's game attempt to bring the 1980s horror-comedy back from the spirit world is full of gaudy set-pieces but fails to add much to the original.”
Xan Brooks·The Guardian
“a perfectly fine fine sequel, neither a total letdown nor a complete, shout-it-from-the-hills return to form for its creator...Maybe we should have said his name — Burton Burton Burton — three times, and the filmmaker who did that beloved original would reappear, grinning maniacally and giving us something a bit less undead and a bit more alive.”
David Fear·Rolling Stone
“While Michael Keaton slips zestfully back into the role of Beetlejuice like he never left, and the always reliable O'Hara is spookily unchanged, Ryder plays Lydia, poignantly, as a brittle adult who's stuck dressing in the style she affected a few decades ago, as though she'd gotten interrupted before she could fully finish growing up.”
Allison Willmore·Vulture
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' is no 'Beetlejuice,' but in the end it's got just enough Burton juice.”
Owen Gleiberman·Variety
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Cast & Crew
Tim BurtonDirectorMichael KeatonBeetlejuiceWinona RyderLydiaCatherine O'HaraDeliaJenna OrtegaAstridJustin TherouxRoryWillem DafoeJacksonMonica BellucciDeloresArthur ContiJeremyNick KellingtonBob - ShrinkerSantiago CabreraRichardBurn GormanFather DamienDanny DeVitoJanitorDanny ElfmanComposerMiles MillarWriterSeth Grahame-SmithWriterAlfred GoughWriterHaris ZambarloukosCinematographyFrom the studio
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